Issue 1 • 2017
Welcome to the New Interactions
Welcome to the new IS-MPMI Interactions issue format! This enhanced publication, updated quarterly, will provide members with a glimpse of topic research developments, current events, opinions, and career opportunities. We are hopeful that Interactions will become a forum for serious (and occasionally less-than-serious) thoughts that stimulate new interactions between members….
Get to Know the IS-MPMI Interactions Advisory Team
Dennis Halterman Research Geneticist USDA/ARS Vegetable Crops Research Unit Madison, WI U.S.A. Joined IS-MPMI in 2001 Current/past positions: EIC of IS-MPMI Interactions 2017-present Dennis’s research is focused on identifying and characterizing disease resistance genes from wild species relatives of cultivated potato. His research involves a wide range of disciplines that…
InterViews: Sophien Kamoun
This InterView with Sophien Kamoun, John Innes Centre, was performed by one of the 2016 IS-MPMI student travel awardees, Jixiang Kong, Gregor Mendel Institute. JIXIANG KONG: What led you to study biology? More specifically plant-pathogen interactions. SOPHIEN KAMOUN: I grew up with a passion for nature. As a teenager I…
Using Scoop.it to Share Science Related to Your Interests
By Dennis Halterman, Interactions Editor-in-Chief If you’re like me, you have a Twitter account but you only use it once in a while. Or maybe you’ve heard about using social media to communicate your science but haven’t yet taken the leap. Setting up work-related social media accounts is relatively easy…
InterMurals – Oliver Ellingham
As part of the new IS-MPMI Interactions, we would like to include photos of you doing what you do best—science. Send a photo that best represents your research with a short caption to dennis.halterman@ars.usda.gov, and we will include it in the InterMurals section of Interactions. Oliver Ellingham, University of…